Let's say I have a website at www.hostname.com/example. I would like to create a page, that generates based off of any extension of the original url. For example, I would have a page called setup.php. If someone were to go to www.hostname.com/example/xyz, it would load setup.php, and utilize xyz as a variable to customize setup.php. Is this possible? I have tried searching google, but have found no results. Any thoughts?
2 Answers
Make a file called .htaccess and place it in the main directory. Then put this code in it:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ setup.php?data=$1 [QSA,L]
Now whatever url you open, the file setup.php will be executed and you can get the requested data with the $_GET['data'] variable. For example:
<?php
$data = $_GET['data'];
if($data === 'xyz') {
echo "<b>xyz</b> is requested!";
include "xyz.php";
}
else {
echo "error 404: page not found";
}
?>
1 Comment
Josue Espinosa
I think this is right, except I want the data after the first folder. So if I was at
servername.com/folder/xyz, it would return xyz to the setup.php file.Take for example the url http://www.noticeeverything.com/news/. You could grab just the string "news" like this:
var url = window.location.href;
var str = url.substring(32, 36);
console.log(str);
Or, without having to determine the index of the substring you want:
var url = window.location.href;
var str = url.replace('http://www.noticeeverything.com/news/', 'news');
console.log(str);
Or, if you don't know what the url is specifically, but expect it to follow the same pattern (i.e. 'http://www.something.com/something/'):
var pattern = /[a-z]+/;
var url = window.location.href;
var newString = url.replace("http://www.", '').replace(pattern, '').replace('.com/', '').replace('/', '');
console.log(newString);
Hope that helps.
.htaccess, neitherphpnorjavascript.rewrite rule htaccessin google to find it out.